The US bombing of Iranian nuclear facilities on Saturday, June 21, was dubbed the Midnight Hammer, because it literally pulverized the victim. But Washington and Tel Aviv received the blows not with gunpowder-laden missiles, but with more powerful truths. A strategic defeat for Donald Trump.
They did not resist the moderate Iranian reaction of a persuasive nature with a missile bombardment of US installations in Qatar for 48 hours, and it was Donald Trump who ordered the total ceasefire of a conflict that lasted 12 days, although lying, since he claimed that Tehran and Tel Aviv had reached that agreement when it was not true, and this was announced by the Government of Iran, which made it a condition that the Zionist aggression cease first.
The important thing to highlight—beyond whether or not the ceasefire actually materializes—is that the driving force behind the 12-day war, President Trump, gave in to the Persians’ first demonstration that they weren’t lying when they warned the US of the consequences that the aggression would have for his country and its ally Israel.
The heroic resistance of Iran and its people, first and foremost, and the international protest against the war and in favor of peace, including the United States, and the reaction of the Israeli people against the Zionists, are the cause of the great defeat of the White House and the Pentagon, expressed in their hasty decision to end a war that was lost since they decided to launch it using Israel as a scapegoat.
A strong bad taste in the mouths of both aggressors – Netanyahu and Trump – had been left by the dangerous open military attack by the United States, involving that power in the war, to such an extent that the White House had recently lowered the objective of its unconstitutional participation in the conflict when it rectified that “Midnight Hammer’s intention was not to force a regime change in Tehran” as they had proclaimed, but rather to “soften them” to such an extent that they would lower their flags and renounce developing nuclear weapons, something that was moreover formulated by the Government of Iran under the condition of guarantees to continue the process of nuclearization for peaceful purposes, a right that all the peoples of the world have.
But it was Iran that bent the adversary’s knees, no matter how much they now try to do and say whatever they can to distort the results, just as they did futilely 50 years ago in Vietnam. Let it be clear: Trump’s proposal does not respond to what he claims about an accomplished objective (which was not so much nuclear as geostrategic), but quite the opposite.
Trump euphorically declared that the Pentagon’s rocketry had succeeded in destroying three Iranian nuclear bases in Fordo, Natanz, and Isfahan: “Monumental damage has been caused to all of Iran’s nuclear facilities. Total destruction is the appropriate term!” he said, drunk with happiness, but everyone knew the president was faking it.
It was the great fraud that led to the surrender of his weapons and his soul. His Secretaries of Defense, Pete Hegseth, and of State, Marco Rubio, were ridiculed with their statements of support for their boss’s supposed jubilation.
Of course, the euphoria didn’t match the facts, and it wasn’t the Iranians who denied or denounced the illogical arguments used to justify their unconsulted entry into the war. The Pentagon chief declared that “the president authorized a precision operation to neutralize threats to our national interests, the Iranian nuclear program, and the collective self-defense of our troops and our ally Israel.”
Everything was fabricated, nothing was documented, nothing was proven, and even though they knew they were committing a constitutional violation by starting a war behind the back of Congress (hence perhaps the term “midnight”), there is more than enough time left to impeach him, remove him from the presidency, and then subject him to criminal trials.
It was Scott Ritter, a former UN weapons inspector, who was one of the first experts to debunk Washington’s false triumphalist narrative by claiming that the bombed facilities were empty because, anticipating something like this, Tehran had vacated them earlier.
Senator Chris Murphy also called the president a liar, demonstrating that he manipulated the facts about Iran’s nuclear program, and even the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) confirmed that no radiation was detected outside the attacked plants.
The consequences could be very damaging for the United States and, by extension, for the world. Iran, although it would also harm itself, threatened to close the Strait of Hormuz, through which oil tankers carry up to 25% of the world’s oil, thereby deepening the trade and economic war unleashed by Trump.
It was only logical that strong, hidden pressure would emerge from its allies against the disastrous adventure, which immediately had a dangerous impact on the stock market, the international monetary system, and trade, and created the possibility of a return to the high oil prices of the 1970s, above $100 a barrel.
Russia, China, and Pakistan presented a resolution to the UN Security Council demanding condemnation of the US attack, while the Organization of Islamic Cooperation and several Latin American countries, from Venezuela to Chile and Mexico, raised their voices against the aggression. Meanwhile, the oil market shuddered, because if the war continued, a new energy crisis of greater proportions than that of 1973 would occur, with disastrous consequences, since we have not yet emerged from the tariff war or the currency war in which the dollar is dangerously weakening.
The weakness of the United Nations would not allow its approval, nor would other international and regional institutions. However, what was being valued was not so much what could be decided by mediated groups, but rather its role as a catalyst for an unprecedented global convergence of the forces of peace against those of war, which would put an end to a one-man regime that could destroy the world with a single finger, and that this confluence within diversity would translate into a global response to an outdated fascism that could destroy the planet.
It was not, therefore, a simple tripartite negotiation between Iran, Israel, and the United States, but between all the major powers, including the failing ones in Western Europe.
In all fairness, Trump would have to immediately stop his large-scale criminal acts of state terrorism, push for Netanyahu’s removal from office, return the occupied territories to the Palestinians, negotiate peace in the region, and not just with Iran. Iran has already lost the war, even if they continue massacring the Persians and, in retaliation, continue destroying Tel Aviv, which also isn’t fair to be punished because of the Zionist government and the White House.
If it were necessary to summarize this moment, it would be necessary to say, without hesitation, that US military aggression has not, and will not, liquidate Iran, just as NATO in Europe has not, and will not, liquidate Russia, nor will Trump’s economic war halt China’s technological advancement, which is the foundation of this new era of global international relations. These are the real pillars Trump wants to destroy, but he is already defeated. His defeat cannot be paid for by others in the world. Everything that is created, done, dreamed, or attempted to do so is pure fallacy that may serve as fuel to inflame the increasingly less fanatical fans of that deforming and warped thing called MAGA, but not for other goals.
If there is a modicum of rationality in the people with brains in the decision-making strata of the United States and Israel, if they feel human, if their hearts beat, and if they wish that planet Earth with its radiant blue atmosphere remains the most attractive point in the solar system and not a ball of fire orbiting madly in the cosmos, they would seek to have sinister and ambitious characters who act like aliens make an exit and disappear from the stage to the boos of the seats for the bad tragicomedy they are performing.
The separation of good and evil is imminent. You don’t have to like MAGA, but they’re doing ALL of humanity a favor.
Our brothers in the sky will smile upon them favorably. True evil has embedded over the last 2000+ years. You still can’t see it.
Israel will be saved for last. Regime change in Iran was just the beginning of a much larger revelation of truths to come.
